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suspicious bid activity

Hi there,just here to ask about suspicious bidding activity, on an item im bidding on an account repreatedly outbid itself 4 times and it was a behaviour i found odd? so i was wondering if this user could be a bot? the blue ones are the potential bot...

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Do I have to pay extra for insurance?

I've paid for a repair service on Ebay where I send an item off to be repaired. The seller says that to get a higher level of insurance on return postage I have to pay extra (I'm already insuring the item when I send it to the seller). From what I ga...

item not received

I purchased an item 2 weeks ago off ebay, the money has been paid via paypal. I have not had the item and the item is no longer in my ebay. I can't find anything (other than on paypal) to contact ebay about item not received.What can I do

What can I do in this situation?

Hello, I bought an item via guest account on march 9 and it should have arrived on march 14, but didn't,so I contacted to seller and explain to them that I bought an item with guest account and gave them order number, but they said that they can't do...

Changes to the item view format

WRT the new format - the click to zoom piccies etc..... one I'm sure I am not alone in finding it less intuitive(adding clicks never is) and sluggish(picture load heavy?)IME. There seems to be lot more instances of disappearing/reappearing descriptio...

No Item No Refund

I recently purchased an item from a seller, which was my first purchase in many years, unfortunately, my profile address was out of date and as soon as I realised this error I immediately contacted the seller, which was well before the dispatch, to i...

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Why don't I meet "seller requirements"? This is crazy!

I've had something very strange happen in the past week. Keen to take advantage of Black Friday discounts and bonus Nectar points I attempted to buy an item I had been watching for a while - the item being DAPOL OO Gauge Category Masts (a model railw...

not as described

I am trying to raise a return as item not as described, i purchased boots described as size 5 only to receive size 4 when i fill in details and photo it still says the seller does not accept returns. help please

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eBay will only show me sponsored items for sale!

Suddenly this morning if I do a search for anything I want to buy I only get a few sponsored items and nothing else. The page says there are so many thousand items, but I'm not seeing them.I'm attaching a screen shot, it explains much better than wor...

search for sellers by name

hello all.. I'm sure years ago i used to be able, or atleast figured out or knew how to find a seller by name. recently i have tried to do such a thing, without success. is it still possible?was it ever?am i imagining that it was. any help would be g...

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Harassment And Threats From Seller

I purchased a video game from a seller based on the pictures and description which were advertised (Pristine and Perfect, everything included), But when the game arrived after a 2 week wait it wasn't the game pictured but another which was dirty and ...

Extremely slow dispatch and wrong method used?

Wondering if I'm being unreasonable here. Purchased an item Sunday night / Monday morning. The expectation would be sent out Monday. Monday I receive a dispatch notification but no tracking. Special delivery should arrive Tuesday. Come Wednesday noth...